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1884–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelites

María Consuelo Cuñado González (Bilbao, January 2, 1884 – Paterna, Valencia, November 24, 1936) was a Carmelite nun. After completing her novitiate in Vitoria, she moved to Valencia to work as a teacher at the local school.

1877–1936 · Contemporary

María Desamparados Giner Líster of the Blessed Sacrament (born December 13, 1877, in Grao, died August 19, 1936, in El Saler) was a Spanish Carmelite Sister of Charity, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1890–1967 · Contemporary · Augustinian Recollect Missionary Sisters

Salustiana Antonia Ayerbe Castillo, in religion María Esperanza de la Cruz, born on June 8, 1890, in Monteagudo and died on May 23, 1967, was a Spanish religious sister and co-founder of the Augustinian Recollect Missionary Sisters.

1890–1936 · Contemporary

Maria Felicyta Masia Ferragut (born August 29, 1890, in Algemesí; died October 25, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. She entered a convent, and her sisters were also nuns.

1873–1937 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Francesca of the Incarnation, born María Francisca Espejo y Martos (Martos, February 12, 1873 – Las Casillas, January 13, 1937), was a Spanish Trinitarian nun killed by Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. She was beatified as a martyr by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.

1905–1936 · Contemporary

María Jordá Botella was a Catholic martyr who was killed during the Spanish Civil War. She was the youngest member of a group executed for their public displays of faith and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1888–1960 · Contemporary · Passionist nuns

Maria Giuseppina Teresa Marcucci, in religion Mary Magdalene of the Blessed Sacrament, born April 24, 1888, in San Gemignano, near Lucca, Italy, and died February 10, 1960, in Madrid, Spain, was an Italian nun and a member of the Passionist Nuns.

1900–1978 · Contemporary · Institute of Religious Daughters of Mary of the Pious Schools

María Nieves Sánchez Fernández, in religion María Nieves of the Holy Family, born May 2, 1900, in Villanueva de Córdoba, Spain, and died May 1, 1978, in Córdoba, was a Spanish nun and a member of the congregation of the Daughters of Mary of the Pious Schools.

1877–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Jacoba Martínez García, in religion Maria Pilar of Saint Francis Borgia (1877–1936), was one of the three Carmelite martyrs of Guadalajara during the Spanish Civil War. She was beatified on March 29, 1987, by Pope John Paul II. Her feast day is July 24.

1925–1996 · Contemporary

María Portilla Crespo, also known as María de los Desamparados Portilla Crespo or Amparo Portilla Crespo de Romero, born on May 29, 1925, in Valencia, Spain, and died on May 10, 1996, was a Spanish Catholic laywoman, constantly devoted to the poorest, the sick, the marginalized,…

1892–1936 · Contemporary

María de la Purificación Vidal Pastor was a Catholic martyr killed during the Spanish Civil War. A single laywoman, she was martyred due to her public manifestation of religiosity and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on March 11, 2001.

1885–1936 · Contemporary

Maria del Carmen Moreno Benítez (born August 24, 1885, in Villamartín; died September 1, 1936, in Barcelona) was a Spanish Salesian sister, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church. She joined the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.

1903–1936 · Contemporary

Maria del Olvido Noguera Albelda (born December 30, 1903, in Valencia; died November 30, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. She was a member of Catholic Action. She died during the Spanish Civil War at the age of 32.

1866–1937 · Contemporary

Maria del Refugio Aguilar y Torres (San Miguel de Allende, September 21, 1866 – Mexico City, April 24, 1937) was a Mexican religious sister and founder of the Congregation of the Mercedarian Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.

1905–1936 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Martienne Valtierra-Tordesillas, in religion Marie Ange de Saint Joseph (1905–1936), was one of the three Carmelite martyrs of Guadalajara during the Spanish Civil War. She was beatified on March 29, 1987, by Pope John Paul II. Her feast day is July 24.

1864–1936 · Contemporary

Matrona of Anemnyasevo (born Matrona Grigoryevna Belyakova; November 18, 1864, Anemnyasevo, Kasimov Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate — July 29, 1936, Moscow) was a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1882–1935 · Contemporary

Matthew Kadalikattil, born on April 25, 1872, in Edappady, India, and died in Palai on May 23, 1935, was an Indian Catholic priest of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, founder of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart congregation, and recognized as venerable on June 27, 2011, by Pope B…

1902–1936 · Contemporary · Piarists

Matías Cardona Meseguer (born December 23, 1902, in Vallibona, died August 20, 1936, in the same place) was a Spanish priest of the Piarist Order. He was a victim of the anti-Catholic persecutions during the Spanish Civil War, murdered out of hatred for the faith (odium fidei).

1880–1937 · Contemporary

Archimandrite Mavriky (secular name Mikhail Vladimirovich Poletaev; December 18, 1880, Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg Governorate — October 4, 1937, Karaganda) was an archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was glorified as a venerable martyr in August 2000.

1899–1936 · Contemporary · Trinitarian Order

Melchior of the Holy Spirit, born Melchor Rodríguez Villastrigo (Laguna de Negrillos, January 29, 1899 – Cuenca, September 24, 1936), was a Spanish priest of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity.

1835–1900 · Contemporary

Meletius, born Mikhail Ioannovich Leontovich (October 26/November 6, 1784, in Stari Sanzhary – February 17/29, 1840, in Kharkiv), was a Russian Orthodox bishop and saint of Ukrainian descent.

1960–1991 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Michał Tomaszek (September 23, 1960 – August 9, 1991) was a Polish Catholic priest and missionary of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. Having been killed in hatred of the faith (in odium fidei) in Peru, he is venerated as a martyr and blessed by the Catholic Church.

1913–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Michele Masip González (Llardecans, June 8, 1913 – Barbastro, August 15, 1936) was a Spanish religious, martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1843–1915 · Contemporary

Miquel Maura i Muntaner (Palma, September 6, 1843 – September 9, 1915) was a Majorcan priest and founder of the Congregation of the Zelator Sisters of the Eucharistic Cult. He has been proclaimed venerable by the Catholic Church and is currently in the process of beatification.

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Miguel Remón Salvador, O.F.M.Conv. (Caudé, September 17, 1907 – Samalús, August 3, 1936), was a Spanish religious brother of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.

1941–1991 · Contemporary

Miguel Tiu Imul (born September 5, 1941, in La Montaña, Quiché Department; died October 31, 1991, in Parraxtut, Quiché Department) was a Guatemalan martyr, a victim of the Guatemalan Civil War, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1915 · Contemporary

Mikayel Gharagyozyan was arrested in April 1915 as part of a list of 58 prominent Armenian doctors compiled by Dr. Bahaeddin Shakir, one of the leaders of the Committee of Union and Progress. He was killed in 1915 near Tigranakert.

1935–1974 · Contemporary

Mikel Beltoja (April 17, 1935 – February 10, 1974) was an Albanian Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Shkodër who was murdered in odium fidei under the communist and atheist regime of Enver Hoxha. He is venerated as a blessed and martyr by the Catholic Church.

1873–1919 · Contemporary

Michael Bleive (born October 29, 1873, in Olustvere, Suure-Jaani, Viljandi County, Governorate of Livonia, present-day Estonia; died January 14, 1919, in Tartu), also spelled Michael Bleiwe, born Mihkel Bleive, also spelled Mihhail Bleive, and known in Russian as Mikhail Ivanovic…

1870–1931 · Contemporary

Mikhail Pavlovich Cheltsov (May 27, 1870, Kikino village, Ryazhsky Uyezd, Ryazan Governorate — January 7, 1931, Leningrad) was a protopresbyter of the Russian Orthodox Church and a theologian. He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2005.

1877–1961 · Contemporary

Schemarchimandrite Mikhail (secular name Maksim Kuzmich Galushko; 1877, Polnaya — March 24, 1961, Kharkiv) was a schemarchimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church, a venerable confessor, and a locally venerated saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

1890–1937 · Contemporary

Mikhail Ivanovich Gusev (Mikhail of Kulebaki; October 25, 1890, Diveyevo, Arzamas Uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod Governorate — November 20, 1937) was a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church and an archpriest.

1959–1992 · Contemporary

Miroslav Imotski, born Miroslav Lončar (Nebriževac, 1959 – near Imotski, July 5, 1992), was a Serbian Orthodox new martyr who suffered a martyr's death. Members of the Croatian Armed Forces abducted him while he was working in a field and took him in an unknown direction.

1848–1907 · Contemporary

Misha-Samuel (born Mikhail Vasilyevich Lazarev; 1848 – February 23 [March 8], 1907) was a holy fool of Pereslavl, venerated in Orthodoxy as Blessed Mikhail of Pereslavl, a locally canonized saint of the Yaroslavl Diocese.

1889–1938 · Contemporary

Mikhail Alexandrovich Berezin (June 13 [25], 1889, village of Maloye Karachkino, Kozmodemyansky Uyezd, Kazan Governorate — January 13, 1938) was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized in 2002 as a member of the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia.

1880–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Modest García Martí, also known as Modest of Albocácer (Spanish: Modesto García Martí; born January 18, 1880, in Albocácer, Castellón province; died August 30, 1936, near Albocácer), was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church, a martyr, priest, Capuchin friar, and victim of the…

1912–1936 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Modesto Vegas was a Spanish Franciscan friar who was born on February 24, 1912, in La Serna, Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, he was killed in 1936 in Lliçà d'Amunt, along with friars Alfonso Lopez, Dionisio Vicente, Pedro Rivera, Francisco Remón, and Miguel Remón.

1874–1959 · Contemporary · Little Sisters of the Poor of Maiquetía

Luisa Aveledo, in religion Sister Marcelina of Saint Joseph, born in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 18, 1874, and died in Barranquilla, Colombia, on November 16, 1959, was a Venezuelan religious sister.

1917–1936 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Mission

Narciso Pascual Pascual, born on August 11, 1917, in Sarreaus (Tioira, Maceda) and died in Guadalajara on December 6, 1936, was a Galician Latin Catholic religious, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and was beatified by Pope Francis on October 13, 2013.

1882–1936 · Contemporary

Narciso de Esténaga y Echevarría (Logroño, October 29, 1882 – Miguelturra, August 22, 1936) was a Spanish Catholic bishop. He was one of the thirteen bishops killed in the Republican zone during the Spanish Civil War, a victim of religious persecution.

1877–1942 · Contemporary

Narcyz Putz (born October 28, 1877, in Sieraków; died December 5, 1942, in Dachau) was a Polish Catholic priest, a blessed of the Roman Catholic Church, administrator and pastor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish in Bydgoszcz (1920–1925), pastor of St.

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Narcisse Basté Basté (1866–1936) was a Spanish Jesuit who was assassinated during the Spanish Civil War in Valencia, Spain, on October 15, 1936.

1887–1958 · Contemporary

Dom Ndoc Suma (born July 31, 1887, in Nënshat, Zadrima; died April 22, 1958) was a Roman Catholic priest who died for his faith in communist Albania. He is one of the Thirty-eight Martyrs of Albania.

1853–1928 · Contemporary

Nectarius of Optina (born Nikolai Vasilyevich Tikhonov; 1853 – May 12, 1928) was a Russian Orthodox hieromonk and starets. He has been venerated as a local saint since July 26, 1996, and was glorified for the entire Church along with other Optina elders on August 16, 2000.

1875–1937 · Contemporary

Archimandrite Neophytus (secular name Nikolai Alexandrovich Osipov; May 9 [21], 1875, Augustów, Suwałki Governorate — November 3, 1937, Antibessky camp site, Siblag, Novosibirsk Oblast) was an archimandrite of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1890–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Nicasio Sierra Ucar, C.M.F. (Cascante, October 11, 1890 – Barbastro, August 12, 1936), was a Spanish priest of Basque origin who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1863–1936 · Contemporary

Niceta Plaja Xitra de San Prudencia (born October 31, 1863, in Torrent; died November 24, 1936, in Paterna) was a Spanish nun of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity, a martyr, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1893–1936 · Contemporary · Passionists

Vicente Díez Tejerina (Herreruela de Castillería, February 17, 1893 – Manzanares, July 23, 1936), better known by his religious name Nicéforo de Jesús y María, was a Catholic Passionist priest who was executed by firing squad in 1936 during the religious persecution that broke ou…

1875–1941 · Contemporary

Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylov (April 26 (May 8), 1875, Petrovskoye, Vereysky Uyezd, Moscow Governorate — night of December 11–12, 1941, Karaganda Region) was a protopresbyter. He was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.

1862–1918 · Contemporary

Nikolai Ivanovich Lyubomudrov (April 11 [23], 1862, Yurkino village, Yaroslavl Governorate — October 20 [November 2], 1918, Latskoye village, Yaroslavl Governorate) was an Orthodox priest and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2000 for universal…